Linguee 2013

Linguee‘s bilingual dictionary and translation search has been available for English and French, German, Portuguese and Spanish for several years now – reaching a total of 2 billion searches in November 2013.

Chinese, Dutch, Italian, Japanese, Polish, and Russian have now been added.

Extending the abilities of traditional bilingual dictionaries, Linguee‘s new approach allows its users to search for translations more precisely: when a user enters a term, millions of translated sentences are searched within just a fraction of a second. The results contain both the search term and its translations in context, i.e. in complete sentences. This helps the user to find the optimal match that works best in the respective context.

Linguee‘s system can even look up complicated word combinations and phrases such as “speedy recovery” – a task any editorial dictionary will struggle with, as there are too many combinations to list them all. Linguee‘s big data technology crawls translations available on the Internet. It retrieves billions of sentences, especially those translated by professionals, company presentations, and official documents from institutions such as the United Nations, just to name a few examples. Linguee‘s custom-tailored machine learning system evaluates the quality of the collected texts, taking into account the peculiarities of each language. It then selects high quality sentences and displays them as search results. It is due to this unique technology that users across the globe are choosing Linguee as their favorite research tool.